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		<title>Pre-dawn art festival wakes up Paris during sleepy summer months</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Barchfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — As dawn breaks over a sumptuous Paris garden that was once the playground of kings, a lone horseman puts his mount through his paces. The magnificent steed prances in fancy circles, stretches his forelegs and canters almost in place — in short, he dances.

A crowd of spectators, gathered in the inky darkness at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amity first Indian group to open business schools in London, Singapore</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/amity-first-indian-group-to-open-business-schools-in-london-singapore-127645/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Amity, a leading education-oriented group, will become the first from India to open two new business and management-oriented campuses in London and Singapore.

Announcing this new initiative, Atul Chauhan, CEO of AKC Group of Companies and President of Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, said the two campuses were being set up in a European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brit Defence Secretary thinks he&#8217;s unpopular because of his moustache!</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/brit-defence-secretary-thinks-hes-unpopular-because-of-his-moustache-127630/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/brit-defence-secretary-thinks-hes-unpopular-because-of-his-moustache-127630/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Brit Secretary of State for Defence Bob Ainsworth has blamed his moustache for making him unpopular.

Ainsworth, 57, who has become the first Cabinet minister to sport a moustache for several decades, also said his thick Midlands accent and gravelly voice were a problem.
&#8220;I speak with a Midlands accent. I drop my aitches, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pak concerns over US making Islamabad embassy long term base for &#8216;remote control&#8217; of region</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pak-concerns-over-us-making-islamabad-embassy-long-term-base-for-remote-control-of-region-127627/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD - Questions are being raised over the motives behind the massive expansion work on the US embassy which is nearing completion in Islamabad.

A former Pakistan diplomat objected to the US&#8217; plans to have a bigger presence in Pakistan in the pursuit of its strategic interests in the region.
Former Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmed Khan said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fosters to release Australia&#8217;s &#8216;poshest&#8217; beer priced at 70 dollars</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/fosters-to-release-australias-poshest-beer-priced-at-70-dollars-127626/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE - Fosters Group is set to launch one of the &#8216;poshest&#8217; beers in Australia.
Priced at 70 dollars, the so-called luxury beer has traces of vanilla and curry leaf, with hints of honey and passion fruit.

Despite the ongoing credit crunch, Fosters execs are convinced with the success of country&#8217;s &#8216;poshest beer&#8217;, the Crown Ambassador Reserve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LaGuardia airport terminal evacuated in NYC, police bomb squad arrest man and search bag</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/laguardia-airport-terminal-evacuated-in-nyc-police-bomb-squad-arrest-man-and-search-bag-127617/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/laguardia-airport-terminal-evacuated-in-nyc-police-bomb-squad-arrest-man-and-search-bag-127617/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Air travelers at New York&#8217;s LaGuardia Airport found themselves in a mess of delays and missed connections Saturday after a bomb scare involving a homeless man.

LaGuardia&#8217;s central terminal was evacuated for several hours after the man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, then acted like he was trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s army called on to maintain social stability as it celebrates 82nd anniversary</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chinas-army-called-on-to-maintain-social-stability-as-it-celebrates-82nd-anniversary-127611/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chinas-army-called-on-to-maintain-social-stability-as-it-celebrates-82nd-anniversary-127611/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — China&#8217;s military celebrated its 82nd anniversary Saturday, with an editorial in the official paper calling on the armed forces to maintain social stability in the wake of unrest on the fringes of its territory.

The People&#8217;s Liberation Army, the world&#8217;s largest with 2.3 million members, should strengthen coordination with local governments to prepare to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP lawmakers line up against proposed health care reforms as Democrats look to September vote</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gop-lawmakers-line-up-against-proposed-health-care-reforms-as-democrats-look-to-september-vote-127597/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gop-lawmakers-line-up-against-proposed-health-care-reforms-as-democrats-look-to-september-vote-127597/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are looking ahead to a health care showdown on the House floor in September following a key committee&#8217;s passage of sweeping overhaul legislation.

In a sign of the fight ahead, Republicans on Saturday quickly blasted the Democrats&#8217; proposals as a &#8220;dangerous and costly experiment&#8221; that will run up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graphane may help make tiny strips of graphene needed for electronic circuits</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/graphane-may-help-make-tiny-strips-of-graphene-needed-for-electronic-circuits-127591/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/graphane-may-help-make-tiny-strips-of-graphene-needed-for-electronic-circuits-127591/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists have explained how their discovery of graphane could make it easier for the production of tiny strips of graphene needed for electronic circuits.

Graphane was discovered by Kostya Novoselov - a condensed-matter physicist from the Manchester University group.
Graphane has the same honeycomb structure as graphene, except that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent opposition activists, protesters stand trial in Iran over postelection &#8216;riots&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/prominent-opposition-activists-protesters-stand-trial-in-iran-over-postelection-riots-127501/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/prominent-opposition-activists-protesters-stand-trial-in-iran-over-postelection-riots-127501/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran — More than 100 opposition political activists and protesters stood trial in Tehran Saturday on charges of rioting and conspiring to topple the ruling system in the country&#8217;s first trial since the disputed presidential election, Iran&#8217;s state media reported.

The trial underlines the government&#8217;s efforts to bring to a close anti-government demonstrations that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overwhelming popularity, Web site meltdown were among &#8216;cash for clunkers&#8217; glitches</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/overwhelming-popularity-web-site-meltdown-were-among-cash-for-clunkers-glitches-127243/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/overwhelming-popularity-web-site-meltdown-were-among-cash-for-clunkers-glitches-127243/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Strumpf</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — This was one government stimulus plan that yielded quick results. Maybe too quick.

Far more drivers signed up for the &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; program than anyone thought, overwhelming showrooms, blowing through the initial $1 billion set aside by Congress and leaving dealers panicked over when or if the government would make good on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New computer game harnesses human intuition to solve complex problems</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/new-computer-game-harnesses-human-intuition-to-solve-complex-problems-123815/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/new-computer-game-harnesses-human-intuition-to-solve-complex-problems-123815/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - A new computer game prototype, called FunSAT, utilises human ability of intuition to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks.

The online logic puzzle combines work and play and could help integrated circuit designers select and arrange transistors and their connections on silicon microchips, among other applications.
FunSAT, is developed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway and Morocco in row over former Olympic track champion&#8217;s children</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/norway-and-morocco-in-row-over-former-olympic-track-champions-children-123239/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/norway-and-morocco-in-row-over-former-olympic-track-champions-children-123239/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Macdougall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO — The Norwegian ambassador to Morocco denied on Tuesday that he breached his diplomatic duties by helping the children of a Moroccan Olympic cross-country champion return with their mother to Norway.

The custody dispute over the children of Khalid Skah, the Olympic 10,000-meter gold medalist in 1992, has triggered a diplomatic fight between the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorneys for young Gitmo detainee seek his release, say Afghan officials ready to pick him up</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/attorneys-for-young-gitmo-detainee-seek-his-release-say-afghan-officials-ready-to-pick-him-up-123094/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/attorneys-for-young-gitmo-detainee-seek-his-release-say-afghan-officials-ready-to-pick-him-up-123094/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nedra Pickler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Attorneys for a young Guantanamo Bay detainee being considered for prosecution in the United States said Tuesday that the government has no authority to continue holding him in Cuba and Afghanistan is ready to pick him up.

A federal judge who recently described the government&#8217;s case as an &#8220;outrage&#8221; ordered U.S. officials to come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney: Minn. Somali to plead guilty to supporting terrorism, other charges to be dropped</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Forliti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man accused of traveling to Somalia to fight with Islamic militants plans to plead guilty Tuesday to one terror-related charge, his attorney said.

Attorney Jim Ostgard said Salah Osman Ahmed will tell the court he went to Somalia intending to fight against Ethiopian soldiers — not to fight alongside terrorists.
Ahmed, 26, will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omar quits as chief minister after sex slur (Intro Roundup)</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/omar-quits-as-chief-minister-after-sex-slur-intro-roundup-123040/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir was plunged into a sudden political crisis Tuesday with an emotional Chief Minister Omar Abdullah resigning from office after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alleged his involvement in a sensational sex scandal that had rocked the state in 2006.

Declaring that he was &#8220;guilty until proven innocent&#8221; and could not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspector general: TVA lawyers limited $3M report on cause of Tenn. ash spill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Mansfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The head of the Tennessee Valley Authority acknowledged a &#8220;larger cultural problem&#8221; at the agency as an inspector general&#8217;s report says it allowed its lawyers to stifle a $3 million study into the cause of a massive coal ash spill to limit its legal liability.

The report also said the nation&#8217;s largest public utility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan  Radio keen on propaganda &#8216;victories&#8217;, not solution  of problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOHAR - India has time and  again  stated  that Pakistan should stop allow its territory to be used by terrorists against India, before any serious dialogue could commence.

Radio Pakistan seems to be worried that forces in Pakistan  would continue  their terrorist acts, and the possibility of an  India-Pakistan dialogue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina terror suspect nearly lost limbs after 1991 bank robbery conviction in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Baker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. — American Daniel Patrick Boyd faced stern a punishment after being convicted of robbing a bank in Pakistan: Losing a hand and foot.

He avoided the sentence when his conviction was overturned. Two decades later, the 39-year-old Boyd is accused of organizing a group in the U.S. with international terrorist aspirations, and he faces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loan official: Sens. Conrad and Dodd informed they were getting VIP home loan deals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Margasak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Two influential Senate committee chairmen were told they were getting special VIP deals when they applied for mortgages, an official who handled their loans told Congress in closed-door testimony. Democratic Sens. Christopher Dodd and Kent Conrad had denied knowing they were getting discounts when they negotiated their loan terms.

Robert Feinberg, who worked in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP source: Obama to host professor and police officer at center of racial dispute over arrest</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-source-obama-to-host-professor-and-police-officer-at-center-of-racial-dispute-over-arrest-122474/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Elliott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The professor, the policeman and the president are ready to share a beer — and maybe a few thoughts about race and law enforcement in America.

The gathering set for Thursday evening may help President Barack Obama write a sudsy but happy ending to an arrest that triggered a fierce debate over race relations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Park Service awards nearly $1M to preserve, interpret WWII internment sites</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/national-park-service-awards-nearly-1m-to-preserve-interpret-wwii-internment-sites-122412/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mead Gruver</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The National Park Service has awarded nearly $1 million in grants to increase public awareness about and help preserve sites related to the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

The largest of the 19 grants, $282,000, is going to an organization that is building a museum at the former Heart Mountain Relocation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APNewsBreak: AP sources: NYC, Seattle, Houston, Pittsburgh to get zero from $1B COPS money</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/apnewsbreak-ap-sources-nyc-seattle-houston-pittsburgh-to-get-zero-from-1b-cops-money-122392/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devlin Barrett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Four major cities — New York, Seattle, Houston, and Pittsburgh — will get no money from a $1 billion economic stimulus program to help cities avoid laying off police officers, officials told The Associated Press on Monday.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the details publicly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOD IG says &#8216;multiple systems&#8217; failed, leading to electrocution death of Green Beret</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Hefling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Military leaders and a major military contractor failed to protect a Green Beret who was electrocuted while showering in his barracks in Iraq, the Defense Department&#8217;s Inspector General determined in a report released Monday.

The early 2008 death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, of Pittsburgh, triggered an investigation by the IG of Maseth&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US jury found in favor of hospital that deported seriously brain injured Guatemalan man</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-jury-found-in-favor-of-hospital-that-deported-seriously-brain-injured-guatemalan-man-122259/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wides-munoz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI — A hospital that sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala — over the objections of his family and legal guardian — did not act unreasonably, a jury found Monday.

Deputy Court Clerk Carol Harper said the unanimous six-member jury found in favor of the hospital and against the guardian of 37-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian police say at least 55 dead in Islamist militant attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ABUJA, Nigeria — Islamist militants seeking to impose a Taliban-style regime in northern Nigeria launched attacks Monday on police in three towns, expanding a two-day campaign of violence that has killed at least 55 people, police and witnesses said.

Trouble began Sunday when militants attacked a police station in the northern city of Bauchi, leaving dozens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU nations support expanded anti-terror bank data sharing deal with US</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Constant Brand</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — European Union nations on Monday unanimously supported expanding the bloc&#8217;s anti-terror cooperation with the United States to stop the transfer of funds supporting terror groups.

EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Jacques Barrot said the 27-nation bloc wants to give anti-terror investigators at the U.S. Treasury access to European operation centers run by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winston Churchill&#8217;s sofa sells for 7,500 pounds at auction</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/winston-churchills-sofa-sells-for-7500-pounds-at-auction-121723/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - A sofa that had once belonged to Britain&#8217;s war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill has fetched 7,500 pounds at auction, despite being valued at just 80 pounds.

Originally destined for a skip, the battered and ripped Chesterfield was saved when the brother of the late owner mentioned the connection.
The settee was found in the shed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hadlee says Fleming overshadowed coaches and selectors</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/hadlee-says-fleming-overshadowed-coaches-and-selectors-121700/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WELLINGTON - In his latest memoir, former New Zealand fast bowler Richard Hadlee has disclosed how former captain Stephen Fleming became so influential at one point of time that he started to manipulate both selectors and coaches to get what he wanted.

&#8220;If  we selectors had a criticism, it was that at  times  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French leader Sarkozy leaves hospital after heart check; Docs say no further treatment needed</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/french-leader-sarkozy-leaves-hospital-after-heart-check-docs-say-no-further-treatment-needed-121685/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Seward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy was discharged Monday from the hospital where he spent the night after collapsing while jogging. Doctors said his illness was due to heat and overwork and ordered the 54-year-old to rest but prescribed no further medical treatment, his office said.

Sarkozy, dressed in a dark suit and tie, walked hand-in-hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran pursuit of nukes &#8216;futile&#8217;: Clinton</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/iran-pursuit-of-nukes-futile-clinton-121456/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun Kumar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Iran will never achieve its goal of obtaining a nuclear weapon, declaring to Tehran: &#8220;Your pursuit is futile.&#8221;

&#8220;What we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions, that if you&#8217;re pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Rock hotel expands as Vegas operators struggle to fill rooms above fire-sale prices</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/hard-rock-hotel-expands-as-vegas-operators-struggle-to-fill-rooms-above-fire-sale-prices-121311/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oskar Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — As a 490-room tower opens at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just east of the Las Vegas Strip this week, hotel operators citywide are struggling to fill existing rooms and staggering at the prospect of 10,000 more coming online this year and next.

&#8220;It&#8217;s (the) wrong place, wrong time,&#8221; said Randy Fine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With rally restarted, investors begin search for latest signs of economic recovery</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/with-rally-restarted-investors-begin-search-for-latest-signs-of-economic-recovery-121305/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bernard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A stock market that resumed its rally on upbeat earnings reports gets another batch of numbers this week — and must decide whether to keep going or backtrack.

Over the past two weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s 500 index have each jumped more than 11 percent as companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hindutva agenda will not be dropped, asserts Rajnath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUCKNOW - The Bharatiya Janata Party will not drop its Hindutva agenda at any cost, BJP president Rajnath Singh said here Sunday, adding there was no &#8220;need for making those factors public&#8221; that led to the &#8220;party&#8217;s unsatisfactory performance&#8221; in the Lok Sabha elections. 

&#8220;We are determined to follow the Hindutva agenda. Come what may, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tripura newspapers demand change in media policy</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/tripura-newspapers-demand-change-in-media-policy-121021/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AGARTALA - The Tripura Newspapers Society (TNS), an apex body of the newspapers owners and publishers, has urged the state&#8217;s Left Front government to modify what they called an &#8220;anti-media&#8221; advertisement policy.

In a seminar here last night, newspapers editors and intellectuals appealed to the Tripura government to resolve the crisis arising out of the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet shows way to to gauge collective happiness</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/internet-shows-way-to-to-gauge-collective-happiness-120384/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - What if you had a remote-sensing mechanism that could record how millions of people worldwide were feeling on any particular day?

That is exactly what Peter Dodds, mathematician and Chris Danforth, computer scientist at the University of Vermont (UVM), are set to do.	 	
They have worked out ways of gauging collective happiness by monitoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle police arrest 23-year-old man in fatal stabbing of woman, wounding of another</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/seattle-police-arrest-23-year-old-man-in-fatal-stabbing-of-woman-wounding-of-another-120361/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE — A 23-year-old man with a violent history has been arrested in a brutal attack that killed one woman and injured another as they slept in their home.

Isaiah M.K. Kalebu was taken into custody Friday for questioning and was scheduled to be booked into jail for investigation of murder, said Sgt. Sean Whitcomb.
Police had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financier says he gave $5.5M to Jackson executors that was &#8217;secret between Michael and me&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/financier-says-he-gave-55m-to-jackson-executors-that-was-secret-between-michael-and-me-120309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Deutsch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — A former financial advisor to Michael Jackson said Friday that he was the person who recently turned over to executors $5.5 million, which had been &#8220;a secret between Michael and me.&#8221;

Dr. Tohme Tohme responded to an inquiry from The Associated Press about documents in which administrators of the estate said they had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fla. governor&#8217;s office mistakenly praises anti-Semitic DVD sent by white supremacy group</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/fla-governors-office-mistakenly-praises-anti-semitic-dvd-sent-by-white-supremacy-group-120212/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Kallestad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Despite the content of a letter bearing his signature, Gov. Charlie Crist does not want to share an anti-Semitic movie with all Floridians.

Crist&#8217;s office sent a letter thanking John Ubele for providing the governor with a copy of the film &#8220;Jud Suss.&#8221; The film is recognized as one of history&#8217;s most incendiary.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman accused of confining children to hotel bathroom writes of enduring &#8216;a thousand beatings&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/woman-accused-of-confining-children-to-hotel-bathroom-writes-of-enduring-a-thousand-beatings-120059/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Carlton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS — In letters to her mother from jail, a woman accused of starving three of her children in a hotel bathroom for at least nine months says she felt so hopeless and ineffective that she was willing to endure &#8220;a thousand beatings.&#8221;

Ruth Leon said she began receiving the letters from her daughter, Abneris Santiago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Text of Obama&#8217;s remarks on the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of President Barack Obama&#8217;s remarks at a White House briefing Friday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

I wanted to address you guys directly, because over the last day and a half, obviously, there&#8217;s been all sorts of controversy around the incident that happened in Cambridge with Professor Gates and the police department there.
I actually just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sibal asks states to submit their vision report on higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday asked all state governments to provide a detailed report of their objectives in the field of higher education by 2020 within a three month deadline.

&#8220;In the next three months&#8230;each state must give its vision as to what it wishes to do by 2020 in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fla. jury begins deliberations in case of Guatemalan man illegally deported by hospital</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/fla-jury-begins-deliberations-in-case-of-guatemalan-man-illegally-deported-by-hospital-119180/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wides-munoz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[STUART, Fla. — The case against a South Florida hospital that quietly chartered a plane and sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala over the objections of his family and legal guardian was in the hands of a jury Thursday.

Health care and immigration experts across the country are closely watching the court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W.Va. high school principal fired for jumping on pile of students during cafeteria food fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — A high school principal who admitted jumping atop a pile of students during a cafeteria food fight has been fired. The Upshur County Board of Education voted Tuesday to oust Brenda Wells from Buckhannon-Upshur High School. She&#8217;d been suspended since late May.

Wells said earlier this month that she jumped onto what she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida town&#8217;s mayor defends firing of manager after learning his wife is a porn actress</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/florida-towns-mayor-defends-firing-of-manager-after-learning-his-wife-is-a-porn-actress-118856/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Skoloff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The mayor of a small southwest Florida town on Thursday defended the town council&#8217;s decision to fire its city manager after officials learned his wife is an adult film actress.

Fort Myers Beach Mayor Larry Kiker insisted that Scott Janke&#8217;s termination had nothing to do with his spouse&#8217;s job, that the town was merely trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas cleaning up big blobs of gooey oil that are washing up on South Padre Island beaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Gooey oil blobs as big as basketballs have been washing up on the sandy beaches of South Padre Island in Texas, officials said Thursday.

The Texas General Land Office said it doesn&#8217;t know what is causing the tar-like blobs, but authorities were working to clean up the popular tourist destination. Beaches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anger as Dutch government hands back severed head of Ghanaian chief slain 171 years ago</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/anger-as-dutch-government-hands-back-severed-head-of-ghanaian-chief-slain-171-years-ago-118760/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Corder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The descendants of an African chief who was hanged and decapitated by a Dutch general 171 years ago reluctantly accepted the return of his severed head Thursday, still angry even as the Dutch tried to right a historic wrong.

The head of King Badu Bonsu II was discovered last year in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia asks Biden for advanced US weapons, observers; US makes no promises on military aid</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/georgia-asks-biden-for-advanced-us-weapons-observers-us-makes-no-promises-on-military-aid-118407/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Birch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia&#8217;s president asked U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday for advanced U.S. weaponry, military aid and unarmed observers to monitor a cease-fire along the boundaries of two Moscow-backed breakaway regions, a senior U.S. official said.

Biden made no promises of any U.S. military assistance, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paddy crops affected by delayed monsoon in Uttar Pradesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KUSHINAGAR - With clouds nowhere to be seen on the horizon, farmers in Kushinagar of Uttar Pradesh are on their knees praying for the mercy of weather gods.

Paddy fields here have begun to show signs of cracking with the crop wilting away under the harsh rays of sun.
&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t rained anywhere. Our crop has dried. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger introduces latest Twitter video about Calif. budget crisis with giant knife</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/schwarzenegger-introduces-latest-twitter-video-about-calif-budget-crisis-with-giant-knife-117945/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Lin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ever the entertainer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has posted a Twitter video related to the state&#8217;s budget crisis in which he picks up an oversized knife and jokes about autographing state vehicles that will be auctioned to raise cash.

California is trying to close a $26 billion deficit through deep cuts to schools, universities [...]]]></description>
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